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2 Release Announcements (Zeitgeist + GAJ)

Thanks to the Zeitgeist Project Team we have 2 good news today

GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.2 – Luciana’s Tricycle

On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, after 1 year, 3 months, and 9 days since the first prototype, I am proud to announce the first development release of GNOME Activity Journal, codenamed “Luciana’s Tricycle”.

What is GNOME Activity Journal?

GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses the Zeitgeist Framework to display what you did, and introduces a better way to quickly find the things you were doing.

Where?

Downloads: http://edge.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/0.3/0.3.2/+download/gnome-activity-journal-0.3.2.tar.gz
About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com
Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeActivityJournal

Features:

  • Pretty layout
  • Pinning (marking) items
  • Calendar slider (quickly move forwards/back in time)
  • Preview tooltips

Experimental:

  • Tracker-based search

Features in progress for future releases:

  • Display web browsing history in the journal
  • Search and interaction
  • Tags
  • Detailed single-day view showing relationships between files
  • Removing activities from the journal

Call for translators:

The project is still very low on translations. We’d really appreciate translation contributions so more people will be able to start using Zeitgeist.

Cheers
Seif Lotfy

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Zeitgeist 0.3.2 – Shadowy Rumble

On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zeitgeist 0.3.2. This is the third development release, leading up to what will be our stable 0.4 series. It introduces bug fixes and other performance optimizations to work with GNOME Activity Journal.

What is Zeitgeist?

Zeitgeist is an event-logging framework for desktop and mobile devices. Applications can push events into the log, and anyone can query the log via the rich query API. The logged events are semantically categorized and can come from any sort of activity, such as file usage, communications, and browsing history, etc. The Zeitgeist engine is a user-level service and does not have a GUI. It is intended to support dedicated journaling applications aand deep integration with other desktop components.

Where?

Downloads: https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist/+download

About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com

Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist

News since 0.3.1

  • Added FindEvents, optimized shorthand for GetEvents(FindEventIds(…)).
  • Fixed DeleteEvents and make it ignore bad requests.
  • Fixed GetEvents not to raise an exception when called with an empty list.
  • ZeitgeistClient.get_version() now returns a Python list.
  • Some code refactoring, documentation changes and other little fixes.

Cheers,

Seif Lotfy

{ 13 } Comments

  1. mike | January 20, 2010 at 2:15 am | Permalink

    any chance of a PPA?

    that’d be awesome for testing and staying up to date

  2. Randal Barlow | January 20, 2010 at 3:12 am | Permalink

    @mike

    https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist/+archive/ppa

  3. anonymous | January 20, 2010 at 3:31 am | Permalink

    Nice! My main comment is that right now the interface is too “day-oriented”. It focuses on answering the question: what did I do on this specific day?

    I would like to also be able to answer questions like:

    - What was that attachment I downloaded about 2 weeks ago?
    - Where did I move that file that I worked on last month?
    - What documents did I work on most, this past month? (a histogram plot of how often each document was accessed would be nice…)
    - Where did I get this file from?

    How these would be implemented in the GUI, I’m not sure :) Although Thunderbird 3′s new search feature seems like a nice starting point…

  4. mike | January 20, 2010 at 3:39 am | Permalink

    @randal: thanks, running it now.

    seems to lack the ability to search chrome’s history, but besides it’s a super great start :)

    Will probably love this very much.

  5. mike | January 20, 2010 at 3:40 am | Permalink

    @anon: that may be true.

    light right now i am sitting on the pc from about 8pm to 4 am, so maybe it get those “sessions”.

    and yeah, that TB stuff is nifty ;)

  6. mike | January 20, 2010 at 4:05 am | Permalink

    man, using it for 20 min and loving the way it works.

    totally awesome once it will work together with tracker (waiting for 0.7 stable release or sth recent) and then tags :)

  7. mike | January 20, 2010 at 4:07 am | Permalink

    on last thing, and then I will stop spamming here ;)

    Can you make the nice icon you already have, show in the window and then also in docky? thx :)

  8. gus | January 20, 2010 at 12:30 pm | Permalink

    I can help you with the Spanish translation, mail me if you need help with that, cheers!

  9. Randal Barlow | January 20, 2010 at 11:42 pm | Permalink

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCPjEp8hVQ

    And the future is looking bright, I added new side button code and fixed a few bugs with the histogram’s today button. It is looking sweet.

  10. Kayvee | January 22, 2010 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

    Hello,
    I installed GAJ on Ubuntu Jaunty using the zeitgeist PPA. After installation, I am able to start up GAJ but there is nothing in it. I logged out and back in, but no use. How do I make it work?

  11. Grigorij | February 17, 2010 at 4:39 pm | Permalink

    Будет ли продолжение этой темы?

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    i use google when i want to do some spanish translation, it is good for general spanish translation “.,

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